Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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fain182 wrote on 12/10/10 09:53:
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>> They don't have the same effect. The Rhythmbox item focuses Rhythmbox.
>> The track data item copies the track data to the clipboard.
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> This is undiscoverable..

The effect of the Rhythmbox item should be obvious -- but, as I said in
my reply to Ersin Akinci, may not be at the moment because of the
non-application icon.

I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable.
I'd love to see suggestions for that.

> There is no way to tell the user the effect of his click? a
> notification bubble showed after the click? it would be annoying but
> maybe better than no feedback at all..

That's a separate issue, because feedback on what has happened is
necessarily too late to tell you what will happen. I think any feedback
that something has been copied to the clipboard should be universal: it
should work the same way for an image region in Gimp, or a Web link in
Ubuntu Software Center, as it does for the track data here.

A couple of examples that might be inspirational:
*   Microsoft Office 98 for Mac (and maybe later versions, I don't know)
    played a small sound effect whenever anything was copied.
*   If there was a clipboard status menu, that could blink momentarily
    whenever something new was copied.

I think this kind of feedback might be what frederik.nnaji was talking
about in the "clipboard information in context menu" thread, though I
didn't really understand it.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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